Jeanie Hannaman

By USCCB, X - U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops - @USCCB - Conclave ready. .. Several North American Cardinals who have been staying at the Pontifical North American College during this interregnum period, departed this afternoon with the cheers and prayers of the seminarians and staff of the College sending them off.

By John M. Grondelski, Daily Compass - In searching for the next Pope, these are some considerations from moral theology I propose deserve deep and sustained attention... The Primacy of Conversion... Mark’s Gospel, which lacks an infancy narrative and begins directly with the beginnings of Jesus’s public ministry starts out with conversion.  It is the leitmotif of John the Baptist’s call (1:4), which is presented as already foretold by the prophets (quoting Isaiah in vv. 2-3).  John’s summons is repeated in the very first words spoken by Jesus: “The kingdom of heaven is at hand!  Repent …” (1:15).

By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine - Much has been said about the mercy of the late Pope Francis, as compared with the supposed rigidity of his two immediate predecessors. I will not draw comparisons here, nor will I pretend to judge these men on their merits. I wish to use the occasion to specify what work a moral teacher must do and its relation to mercy... I like doctors who have good bedside manner. But I don’t hire a doctor for those. I want my doctor to be good at diagnosing a problem and straightforward in addressing it. I want him to give me the respect I am due by telling me exactly what is wrong, ....